Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you
Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness
Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing
Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.